Is it conceivable that Indian occupation forces in Kashmir are arresting the dead now? Is it possible that after running down & killing Adil Ahmed with an armored vehicle, they entered the hospital, assaulted his family & relatives, & took away his body? Is this kind of thuggery imaginable outside a military occupation or a genocide?

In the good old days, most pharmacies in the US were family-owned operations. But in the 1980s, the chain pharmacies began taking over the market in a ruthless competition with one another & most family-owned pharmacies folded. Under the old tenure, pharmacists were professionals & because they’re more schooled in drugs than doctors you could consult with them. If your prescription was giving you problems, you could discuss with the pharmacist & he (in those days, the woman pharmacist was a rarity) might suggest the dosage was too high or question the prescription & suggest you get a second opinion. They conducted themselves as professional pharmacologists. Now, with the chain drugstores, they have been reduced to pill bottlers & retail clerks. Nothing wrong with being a clerk but it’s a waste of resources when you’re trained in pharmacology. Now, if you ask a pharmacist about your prescription or for suggestions, they freeze & suggest you read the insert that comes with the pills.

In an attempt to find a remedy for the allergy I contacted from the mold in my house, I went from one pharmacist to another since the doctor has prescribed three that haven’t worked. They all dummied up. Undaunted, I kept asking & finally found a young guy at a chain store who laid out some options for me. In our discussion, he told me that it isn’t the chains changing & demeaning the pharmacy profession but that state laws are becoming more restrictive & muzzle their professionalism. It appears something similar is going on with doctors in the HMO system where their medical practice is controlled by management & less guided by patient care. What’s going on here? Any insights?

This is a photo of Adil Ahmed, the young man run over & killed by an armored vehicle in Srinagar that just kept rolling down the street & never stopped to see if he was alive or to get him to hospital. Such is the criminal callousness of military occupation.

May he Rest In Peace. Our sincere condolences to his family & friends.

In an era of fake news alarmism, it’s important to recognize there are authentic journalists on the ground risking their lives to report what is going on. Especially in conflict zones they are under attack by those who want propaganda to serve as news or who do not want political criminality exposed. That’s why three Kashmiri journalists were injured yesterday, why Israeli snipers are shooting down Palestinian journalists at the Great Return March, why the Rohingya citizen journalist network has been disappeared by the Burmese military, why Assad hires propagandists to serve as his voice & bars legitimate journalists, why there is a news blackout on war in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia.

Three Kashmiri photojournalists identified as Farooq Javid of EPA, Javad Dar Xinhua News Agency & Umar Asif of Kashmir News Service were injured during clashes between youth & government forces near SMHS hospital.

(Photo by Aasif Shafi)

A Kashmiri man & his grandson: posted for no reason other than its tenderness.

(Photo by Aasif Shafi)

Everyday barbarities under occupation in Kashmir: a young man named Adil Ahmed was killed when he was run over by an armored vehicle. The military convoy continued rolling while he lay dying.

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